Careful Words

seeming (adj.)

Even God's providence

Seeming estrang'd.

Thomas Hood (1798-1845): The Bridge of Sighs.

From seeming evil still educing good.

James Thomson (1700-1748): Hymn. Line 114.

I am not merry; but I do beguile

The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1.